| Trapped on Chinese squid-fishing ships, crews face beatings, malnutrition and more | |
| By Ian Urbina, Joe Galvin, Maya Martin, Susan Ryan, Daniel Murphy and Austin Brush |
Source: latimes |
11/7/2023 |
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Credit: Ed Ou / The Outlaw Ocean Project |
On the high seas roughly a thousand miles north of the Falkland Islands, an 18-year-old Chinese deckhand working on a Chinese squid ship nervously ducked into a dark hallway to whisper his plea for help. |
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“Our passports were taken,” he said to the reporters who had just come aboard. “They won’t give them back.”
Fearing he would be overheard, he typed out a message on his cellphone: “Can you take us to the embassy in Argentina?” |
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